Scalding apparatus.



PATENTED SEPT. 1, 1908.

M. LYNCH.

SGALDING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYao, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATTHEW LYNCH, OF MALTA BEND, MISSOURI.

SCALDING APPARATUS.

No. 897,754. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 1, 1908 Application filed July 30, 1907. Serial No. 386,308.

T all whom it may concern: forming a close joint with the receptacle and Be it known that I, MATTHEW LYNCH, a is adapted to maintain said close joint even citizen of the United States, residing at if it is found desirable to excavate beneath Malta Bend, in the county of Saline and the receptacle to the extent indicated at 14 in 60 State of Missouri, have invented certain new dotted lines in Fig. 3. The opposite end of and useful Improvements in Scalding Appathe arch-way is closed by a similar hood ratus; and I do hereby declare the following except that the hood 15 is provided with a to be a full, clear, and exact description of chimney or flue 16 of any suitable height. the invention, such as will enable others handle 17 is fixed to the hood 15 for facilitat- 5 skilled in the art to whichit appertains to ing manual removal thereof, and the said make and use the same. hood is provided with a guard (plate or flange In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 18 similar in construction an arrangement is a top plan view of a scalding apparatus emto the plate 13. As the arch-way 5 is the same bodying the features of the present invensize throughout its length the hoods 11 and tion. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal, vertical, cen- 15 are, of course, the same size and are theretral section therethrough taken on the plane fore interchangeable, so that the chimney 16 indicated by line 2, 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a may be arranged at either end of the receptatransverse, vertical, central section taken on cle as found desirable and the end provlde the plane indicated by line 3, 3 of Fig. 1. with the hood 11. Fig. 4 is a detail, perspective view of the In practice, of course, the arch-way 5 is hood or closure for one end of the furnace used as afurnace andthe fire is built therein, having the smoke stack applied thereto. Fig and the discharging smoke is permitted to es- 5 is a similar view of the hood or closure for cape through the chimney or draft means the opposite end. 16. In the operation of scalding a hog, the so Referring to the drawings by numerals, 1,1 carcass is lowered bodily into the receptacle are side walls, and 2, 2 end walls of a recepuntil it rests upon the ribs 6, 6. These ribs tacle whose bottom 3 is formed with flatgreatly facilitate the positioning and the re tened portions at the side, and longitudinal moval of the carcass as they enable the. placdepressions 4:, 1 intermediate the flattened ing of supporting implements beneath the 35 portions and the center, the two depressions body and between the several ribs 6 without 4 producing a central longitudinal passage or contacting with the floor of the receptacle. arch-way 5. The receptacle is braced by a The arch-way 5 is, of course, especia ly deseries of transverse ribs 6, 6, each of which sirable as it affords a greater ex osure of is spaced above the highestpoint of the archwater surface to the action of the cat than way 5, and at its ends is depressed as at 7, 7 could be obtained in the same transverse into position for contactin with and being area by the employment of a flat surface. supported by the flattened portions of the In the scalding of a hog it is desirable, of bottom 3. The ribs 6 preferably extend upcourse, to have a table convenient to the wardly along the sides 1, as at 8, 8, and are scalding receptacle, and I therefore contemsuitably bolted or otherwise secured at their plate the employment of a table 17 which upper ends as at 9, 9 to the sides 1. consists preferably of a metal plate mounte In practice, an excavation 10 is formed in on straps 18 carried by transversely arranged the earth of a width equal to the distance bracing beams or bars 19. The outer ends of apart of the outside walls of the depressions the bars 19 are supported bylegs 20 which ex- 4., 4, and the receptacle is placed as indicated tend to and rest upon the ground, the upper in Fig. 3 with the flattened portions of the end of each of the legs being preferably morbottom resting upon the upper surface of the tised into the respective beam 19." Each of ground and the depressions A: extending the straps 18 extends beyond the inner edge down into the excavation. At one end of of the table and is bent over to form a hook the arch-way 5, said arch-way is provided 21, which is in practice disposed within and with a hood or closure 11 having a suitable engages the upper edge of one of the walls 1. handle 12 adapted for facilitating manual The table 17- is thus capable of being readily withdrawal of the hood for opening the end of dismantled by simply being lifted out of enthe arch-way. A guard plate or flange 13 is gagement with the upper edge of the side 1, connected with the hood 11 and extends upand having the legs 20 withdrawn. wardly therefrom a suflicient distance for For the purpose of facilitating the manual lifting and transporting of the present imcle and disposed against the shoulders, and proved receptacle a hand hole22 is preferably hoods adapted to be inserted in either' end of provided at each end of said receptacle. the arch way having flan es formed thereon. hat I claim is In testimony whereof afiiX my signature 5 In a scalding box a receptacle formed with in presence of two witnesses.

a longitudinal arch way on the bottom there- MATTHEW LYN CH. of and provided with shoulders extending Witnesses: longitudinally above the arch way, ribs de- I C. R. WILSON,

pending from the upper edges of the recepta- 7 H. 0. WILSON 

